By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/04/2026 If you have two competing networks, they dig up the road twice. You'd think that the (more regulated) Germans would lay a single network, but they, too, have multiple, competing networks. 10/ 1140
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/04/2026German regulators have a complex set of priorities and constraints: to encourage competition, they promote the idea of competing networks in competing trenches, often just meters apart (rather than competing services on the same fiber and/or fiber run through the same conduit in one trench). 11/ 2140
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/04/2026This makes setting up fiber extremely capital-intensive, so Germany backstops this system with "essential facilities sharing." 12/ 1110
Tim Lune @timlune.bsky.social · 07/04/2026How it started www.wiwo.de/politik/deut...wiwo.deLangsames Internet: Ist dieser Mann an allem schuld?Bereits unter Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl nahm das deutsche Glasfaserdesaster seinen Lauf. Ein Hausbesuch beim damals zuständigen Postminister Christian Schwarz-Schilling. 141
